Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-24
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
fCopvri0hted, 1871

Items of Interest About Persons of Note
in the World.
[Copvrighted 1871
The Countess of Essex, who died not long
ago, was the last survivor of several actresses
who married members of the British aris-
tocracy Anastasia Robinson, Countess of
Peterborough; Miss Fenton, Duchess of
Bolton Miss Farren Countess of Derby;
Miss Brunton, Countess of Craven; Miss
Mellon, Duchess of st. Adams Miss Foote,
Countess of Harrington, complete, with
Lady Essex, the list of histrionic peeresses.
OF late years no marriage of the kind has
taken place, and it is a somewhat curious
circumstance that in no case to-day is the
holder of any of these titles 1.-TWO of which
are extinct) the descendant of any of these
ladies.
Hortense Bertrand, daughter of Count. Ber
trand the most faithful of Napoleon's friends,
is still living in Paris. She accompanied her
father and mother to st. Helena, The EN-
peror taught the little Hortense her cate
chism, and she made her first communion at
the hands of the same able who administered
the last sacrament to the dying Napoleon.
Hortense afterward returned with her pa
gentleman of American extraction. She re-
tains very vivid recollection of the great
Emperor and has many cases of Napoleonic
relics, especially his silver service his famous
Waterloo coat etc.
Dom Piatt, who some years since made
the Washington Capital the most aggressive
newspaper in this country, is living in retire
ment in an Ohio village, of which he is the
postmaster, with the munifcent salary of
$40 a year. Colonel Piatt is about fifty-five
years old, quiet in his manners, gentle in
conversation, but as he said of himself, when
he takes his pen in his hand the devil gets in
his ink-stand. He was adjutant on General
Schenck's staff during the war, and while
stationed in Baltimore one of his duties was
to close the Maryland Club.
w. w. Story, the poet-sculptor has one of
the largest studios in Rome. Eight rooms
are filled with his works, and after viewing
the acres of mutilated and discolored statues
in the Capitol and the Vatican, it was posi-
tive relief to see the fresh and perfect works
in Mr.. Storys studio. He was the first sculp-
tor to represent Cleopatra as an Egyptian
queen, and not as a Roman matron. Mr..
Story resides in the Barbarini palace and &C.
cupies distinguished position in the Roman
society.
Bayard Tuckerman, in 1881, was the only
author in New York according to the city
directory of that year-that is, he is the only
person who had himself put down as an
author, although at that time Brander Mat
thews, Richard H. Stoddard, E. G. Stedman,
Bronson Howard, Oliver B. Bunce, Edgar
Fawcett, Frank R. Stockton and other we'll
known authors lived in New York
Henry G. Bunner, the editor of Puck, is
quite young man. He began life as a clerk
in a cotton brokers' Office, but having liter
airy taste he wrote verses, stories, etc, for the
weekly papers, which attracted attention by
their cleverness and originality, When Puck
was started, he was asked to be its editor,
with liberal salary, and gladly exchanged
the counting-room for the sanctum,
Amelie Rives lives almost constantly at
her ancestral home, Castle Hill Albemarle
Co., Va. Here, with her horses, her dogs
and her dumb-bells, the clever young au-
thoress is surrounded by what she best loves
Art divides her time with literature she
sometimes spending ten hours at a time in
her studio, or else, engaged the same number
of hours with her pen.
Constance Cary, who was one of the Rich
mond bellies during the war, and who after
ward married Burton N, Harrison, private
secretary to Jefferson Davis, has been very
successful as writer of juvenile literature
She has also taken a very prominent part in
New York society, and has quite reputation
as manager of private theatricals,
Ethel Sprague, eldest daughter of Mrs.
Kate Chase ana granddaughter of Chief JUS
tice Chase, whose intention to go on the
stage has recently been announced, is only
eighteen years old. Unlike other fashionable
debutantes she does not intend to make her
first appearance as a star, but to begin at the
bottom of the ladder.
Lord Lytton, whose literary reputation
was made by the poem of Lucille" resembles
his father in personal appearance, having the
same long face, sad-looking eyes, full, straight
beard and prominent nose. His present po-
sition as minister to France is an enviable
one, the government allowing him palace
and 100000 salary.
William Black is thirty-five years old,
slightly built, with dark, earnest eyes, and
long brown mustache. He dresses with
faultless taste, and has nothing of the con-
ventional literary man in his manners and
appear oACC. I1c 10 q ClldTullIlS tdlhcT, Dub
extremely modest about his successes.
Robert Burns Wilson, the rising Kentucky
poet, began writing verses at an early age,
and is now thirty-seven years old, and not
twenty, as has been recently stated. His
first volume Of poems will soon be pub
lished, with the title of "Life and Love-"
Henry Irving is the most scholarly looking
ofall living actors. He is as much inferior
to Booth as an actor as he is superior to him
as manager and master of stagecraft. The
chief fault of Irving's acting is too little
nature and too much art.
Brander Mathews married one of Lydia
Thompson's dashing blondes, which was the
beginning of his interest in the drama. He
is great lover of the French drama, placing
Moliere above Shakespeare in knowledge of
the actors art. STYLUS.
INTERESTING BEAVER COLONIES.